Welcome to the ECN 481/581 page. This will be the spot to check out the syllabus, assignments, and answer keys, as well as find internet links related to international trade.

Course Syllabus

Assignments, Homeworks, Answer Keys, etc.

• Empirical Project Assignment Sheet (You will need to complete two of these)
  • Project 1 - Trade and Intellectual Property Rights
  • Project 2 - Trade as Aid? The War on Terror
  • Project 3 - Fair Trade
  • Project 4 - The Effects of Regional Free Trade Agreements
  • Project 5 - Trade and the Environment
  • Project 6 - Trade and Energy Policy
  • Project 7 - Trade and the Gap between Wages of Skilled and Unskilled Workers

• Homework 1 (Due at the beginning of class on Thursday, Jan. 24)
  • Answer Key

• Quiz 2 Answer Key (Given on Jan. 31)

• Heckscher-Ohlin Model Assumptions and Main Theorems (Handed out in class on Feb. 5)

• Midterm Answer Key - Version A (Yellow)
• Midterm Answer Key - Version B (White)

• Homework 2 (Due at the beginning of class on Thursday, Feb. 29)
  • Answer Key

• Quiz 3 Answer Key (Given on March 6)

• Final Answer Key - Version A (White)
• Final Answer Key - Version B (Yellow)

Sample Midterm

• Midterm
• Answer Key

Sample Final

• Final
• Answer Key

Click here for a Review Outline of the Course

Interesting Links

• TRADE LINKS ON THE WEB
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • The World Bank
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • United Nations (UN)
  • U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
  • U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
  • U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA)
  • Export-Import Bank of the United States
  • Inter-American Development Bank
  • Institute for International Economics
  • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) web page.
  • U.K. Commission on Intellectual Property Rights website.

  DATA SOURCES

  • Trade Data from the U.S. Census
  • FedStats is a U.S. government database page with easy access to some trade databases.
  • BEA Trade Data including statistics on U.S. balance of payments and foreign direct investment. Also, includes link to Survey of Current Business, which is a monthly publication with lots of industrial and trade data.
  • ITA trade databases which include the most recent U.S. foreign trade highlights, as well as recent data on state and MSA exports to foreign countries.
  • Economic Research Service (ERS) page with information and data on U.S. agricultural trade.
  • Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) with information and data on U.S. agricultural trade and trade policy.
  • Exchange rates - daily and over time. Follow the Asian financial crisis.
  • The Penn World Tables. This is a heavily used dataset by those doing cross country studies because it has consistent cross-country data on GDP, prices, population, etc.
  • Online Data at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes
  • Information and Data on Latin American countries
  • Economagic page: Over 100,000 economic data series available free online

  GENERAL ECONOMIC NEWS AND INFORMATION

  • The Economist
  • The Financial Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The New York Times
  • News Link
  • CNN Financial Network
  • Business Week
  • The Washington Post